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Tiny copper 'flowers' bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production

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Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Berkeley developed a practical way to make hydrocarbons powered solely by the sun.

The device combines a light absorbing 'leaf' made from a high-efficiency solar cell material called perovskite, with a copper nanoflower catalyst, to convert carbon dioxide into useful molecules.

Unlike most metal catalysts, which can only convert CO2 into single-carbon molecules, the copper flowers enable the formation of more complex molecules, such as ethane and ethylene.

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